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ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… to the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… most major centres in South Africa. The SABC grew in the 1960s and 1970s as more radio stations, broadcasting in …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… in the whites-only Parliament of South Africa. During the 1960s, as the European powers granted independence to their …
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s that the …
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… as early as 1908 in the southeastern corner of Cameroon. 1960s An HIV viral variant known as HIV-2 is found in West … that Noe contracted HIV/AIDS in Africa…
ANC statement on the state of readiness for celebrations of 101 year celebration of the ANC, 9 January 2013
… of the second centenary. The ANC will this year hold its main anniversary celebrations in KwaZulu-Natal at Kings Park … ready to accommodate overflow in the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… university and high school students. As early as the late 1960s, university students, who were to become student …
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and … unofficial camping is allowed within 100 m…
PlaceMankweng or Turfloop
… prospects for a better future. Mankweng developed in the 1960s when the University-College of the North was …
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… with 9 200 of them displaying ships from the 1920s to the 1960s. There is also an online service to assist with …
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… Oppenheimer met regularly for lunch or dinner and the main corporations of the Minerals Energy Complex (MEC) met … later given the additional privilege of…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… was to favour republicanism and the United Party (UP), its main opposition, did for a time provide a home for those … those that did not. He declared that in…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… the last five months of 1984. At the November meeting the main focus was however the form and direction of the UDF, not … UDF, formed the Transvaal Regional…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… small and large Afrikaner capitalists, but by the late 1960s the larger capitalists dominated the organisation. By … submission from the Afrikaner…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… the value of setting up a ‘group system’ – five or six main ‘groups’ or ‘finance houses’ that exercised control of … 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella … the owner of a farm at Langlaagte, on…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… right to vote. 1915 Second general election in which the main issue was South Africa’s participation in World War I. …
ArticleWorld War I
… major historical event became known as The Great War. The main belligerent European countries involved in the War were …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… government contractor, supplying beef to the troops. 1815 Main Street is laid out. 1820 10 April, Arrival of the … of a whale fishery. October, A plot of…
ArticleTswana
… similar dialects, beliefs and society structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. … Anglican Church, which is situated at the…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… was later transferred to the Jubilee Arts Centre in the 1960s. Due to political tensions, Cecil Skotnes and Sydney …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… in 1982. Calls to expel the DRC came as early as in the 1960s when the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Joost de …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… was bought by the Apartheid State during the early 1960s and first used at the beginning of 1969 for the …
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
… new maximum-security prison was established in the early 1960s. The living conditions were, particularly in the early …
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across it, namely the Crocodile and Nels … are visible. When in bloom the Clivias at…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… settled by people who were later classified as Coloured. 1960s Boitokong and Hartebeesfontein are established in the 1960s and 1970s. Since they fall on the…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… economy and its and other states political futures. In the 1960s, countries across the globe were coming together to try … rarely brought up as one of those…